The center of circulation in Tropical Depression 06W became more well defined on Sunday and the system was upgraded to Tropical Storm Noul.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 9.7\u00b0N and longitude 140.3\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles east of Yap and about 360 miles east-northeast of Palau.\u00a0 Noul was moving toward the northwest at 7 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 55 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
Noul is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge northeast of the tropical storm is producing some southeasterly winds over the top of Noul.\u00a0 However, the vertical wind shear appears to be decreasing.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed close to the center of circulation in recent hours and a primary rainband appears to be wrapping around the northern side of the storm.\u00a0 These are indications of a tropical cyclone that is becoming more well organized.\u00a0 The increased convection near the center is contributing to well developed upper level divergence on the western and northern portions of the circulation.\u00a0 Noul will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Wind speeds are likely to increase and a period of rapid intensification is possible once the circulation is more well organized.\u00a0 Noul could become a typhoon in a day or two and it could become the equivalent of a major hurricane later this week.<\/p>\n
Noul is at the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it slowly toward the northwest.\u00a0 It could continue to move slowly for another 24 hours or so.\u00a0 After that time the subtropical ridge is forecast to extend farther west and begin to steer Noul on a west-northwesterly track.\u00a0 The projected track would take Noul in the general direction of the northern Philippines.\u00a0 The center of Noul is forecast to pass just north of Yap and it could bring wind and heavy rain when it does.<\/p>\n
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The center of circulation in Tropical Depression 06W became more well defined on Sunday and the system was upgraded to Tropical Storm Noul.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Noul was located at latitude 9.7\u00b0N and longitude 140.3\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles east of Yap and about 360 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[95,96,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}